#publishing

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#cover #lot #more #publishing #slapping

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#exercise #hard #notes #out #over

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#book writing #dirty #extraordinary #grief #publishing

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#business #friends #i #involve #likely

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#down #drive #ghastly #hand #hundred

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#business #commercialized #i #never #north

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#business #formed #guitar #learned #managing

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#far #fewer #publishers #publishing #significant

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#ideas #industry #publishing #received #weren